One Temper Tantrum Wonder

 So... today was a BIG success!! 

We got ready for Jen and Kelly and then had a few minutes to spare so we did some pillar work in the driveway. Then the showed up and I handed her over to Kelly.

Lyric self loaded with no whip literally within 30 seconds. WHAT?!? AND... she stood there quietly on the trailer and didn't come right off! Um... that took me like... 6 weeks! And she still came off before I was ready. So we did that a few times and then... we put the butt bar up. She was fine for a minute. Then she realized and stepped back. And then it was a 10 minute tempter tantrum. She pawed... angrily! She bounced, she flung her head, she sat back on the butt bar, she stuck her head under the chest bar and then got a little silly about it, but managed to get her head back up. She then progressed to throwing herself against the divider. At one point I thought she might fall down.. but she didn't. She finally stopped and resigned herself to the fact that she was stuck. She ate some cookies, got pets, and ate some hay. Then Kelly moved to the butt bar and she got a little chompy again, so we waited. After she settled, Kelly dropped the butt bar and Lyric just stood there. Then we asked her to back and she did. YAY! We gave her a little break and then asked her to go back in. She did. Then we rewarded her and asked her to come right back off. Then we asked her to load again and we put the butt bar up again. She sat there calm and quiet.. then backed into it for a few seconds and thought about another tantrum but decided nope. She was good. And was calm and quiet. We petted her and told her how smart she was and then we dropped the butt bar and asked her to unload again. Whooo hooo!! 

So the next step is to have them come back on Sunday and do it again. We didn't want to take her for a spin just yet, because she was still pretty nervous. So we'll do it again on Sunday.. then I'll practice it and make sure I can do it and then we'll take her for a spin around the neighborhood! 

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